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Not quite your specs - but it's an awesome machine - oft referred to as a portable desktop:
I bought a refurbished DELL PRECISION M6500 - a 17" screen.
Mine is a lowly model, i5, two HDD's, only 4GB RAM - there are other models with more RAM, i7, 4 Memory slots.
A 17" screen model has some serious heft - but in exchange you get a great keyboard that feels like a real keyboard;
This is for real work.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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If the RAM's non-upgradable (not sure how far this is blighting business class laptops, it's endemic in consumer models) I'd lean toward 16GB to give headroom if you end up running more than a few instances of VS or VMs at one time.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Surface Pro 3 has all that and a bit more.
I have the Pro 2. i5 8gb ram 250gb HD. I have the Power Cover Keyboard for the extra battery. IT gets nearly a day and a half of extremely hard usage and doesn't let me down.
Highly recommend it.
It is a bit expensive though.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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I have a Dell XPS 15 and I love it. It's 5k rather than HD.
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This one[^] suits me fine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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BTCI provides banking solutions to BARCLAYS bank . But can anybody tell in which technology this company works ?
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Yes: anyone who works for BTCI in their IT department probably could...
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Really helpful info..
Thanks Dave
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But that would involve research - and that's work! 
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... it's a classless society.
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Real classy sir.
MMM, well being classy you must have class and as such it must mean that you are a drop-in? 
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Well, drop-outs are actually making the really money! Talk about Gates, talk about Mark!
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Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote: Talk about Gates, talk about Mark!
It's a very low percentage gamble; not a smart play.
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Well played sir, well played.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Quote: In 1882, AmerIcan chess player and puzzle writer Samuel Loyd issued a challenge to the public worth $1,000 (which is $22,727.27 USD today ). Out of several million answers, only two were found to be correct. Give it a try, show how to arrange the seven figures and the eight “dots”—.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.—to add up to 82.
Can anyone figure out the solution?
I will post the solution sometime after 10/21/2014 1:00:00 PM EST if no one has found it by that time.
EDIT: Fixed date
EDIT2:
Solution:
A dot over a number signifies that it is a repeater which would go on for ever, as when we endeavor to describe 1/3 decimally as 0.33333 . . . . (etc). With a series of numbers we place the dot over the first and last, as with 0.97979797979 . . . (etc). The remarkable feature here is that a proper fraction divided by 9s (eg. 46/99) is exactly equal to the numerator with the repeater sign followed by the decimal. So, as per the mathematical truths above, one solution is : 80 + .55.... + .9797.... + .4646.... = 80 + 55/99 + 97/99 + 46/99 = 80 + 198/99 = 82).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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As I responded to a Q/A post yesterday...
Sounds like yet another example of the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem
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Sorta (I think). I found it in the ACM's XRDS magazine. I did not see the solution (although now that I saw it, I can't figure out how I didn't see it!)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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A quick search found it, and I find it unsatisfying, in part because we don't use that notation anymore.
modified 20-Oct-14 23:26pm.
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No-one, who learned math after WWII used that notation and most people under 50 never even heard of...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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It has been too long since i have done this but I have the gnawing feeling that the answer will have to do with using a dot on top of the number to signify a repeater (meaning it will go on forever)
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Yup.
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Having looked up the solution, that's not a notation I have ever heard of, so I'd have had no chance!
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We used that notation at school, cannot remember if it was GCSE or A Level though, but I still use it in the very rare occasions I am writing down a repeating decimal.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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We used a "r" superscript: 3.33r
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